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This study group will provide an opportunity for participants to practice and grow their photographic skills. It will consist of visits to notable, hi ...  View More

If you enjoy classical music or the pops, you’ll love the experience of All That Jazz. The study group will explore jazz history, composers, arrangers ...  View More

President Eisenhower in September 1953 appointed Earl Warren, a three-term governor of California as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. ...  View More

Three men, three countries, three cousins, two grandsons and one grandson-in-law of Queen Victoria. In the years leading up to World War I these men s ...  View More

In Heirs of the Founders (Doubleday, 2018), noted historian H. W. Brands gives us the parallel biographies of the three giants of the second generatio ...  View More

Great reads generate great movies, and, in combination, they generate great discussions. Join us as we explore a world where everything and everybody ...  View More

Great book discussions encourage participants to engage in the exchange of ideas that should form the basis of civil discourse in a democratic society ...  View More

Plato said, “Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.” Do you enjoy reading or listening to poetry? Do you feel as though a poem elicits some ...  View More

In 1955 French critics referred to the grim fatalistic crime movies in the U.S. after WWII as “film noir” or dark films. But at the same time, the Ger ...  View More

If you love novels, short stories and flash fiction and you want to improve your writing skills, join us for a seven-week workshop on the “how” of wri ...  View More

Beethoven has been considered by many to have been the greatest composer off all time. What makes Beethoven great? We will explore the music and life ...  View More

In mid-1934, the Hollywood Production Code started to be enforced following a short period from 1930 to 1934 when the studios were allowed virtually u ...  View More